Graduate Fire Engineer - Bristol (Immediate Start)

Hours: 37.5

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our award-winning Fire Engineering team delivering sustainable projects for our communities, planet and society. 

Our Fire Engineering team has a earned a reputation for delivering technically excellent work. From concept to construction, our fire engineering expertise helps to optimise design and ensure complex buildings are compliant with regulations. Our team has extensive experience working on public sector, residential, commercial, industrial and high hazard process construction projects. We deliver a range of engineering services throughout each step of the development process, from site appraisal, through to planning, design and delivery services for all types of projects.

We are looking for graduates with a passion for the built environment, and the desire to work in a highly collaborative multi-disciplinary team focused on sustainability, technical excellence and shaping construction in the UK and overseas.

What will your role involve? 

You'll be working with the support of your manager and senior colleagues as follows:

• Fire Engineering design on a number of projects.
• Early-stage strategic input to design.
• Detailed design to construction status information and beyond into Post Occupancy Evaluation.

Post occupation services:

• Fire management plan development.
• Fire evacuation plan development.
• Fire risk assessment.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

• A relevant BSc/ BEng/ MSc/ MEng or equivalent (a master's in mechanical, chemical, aeronautical engineering or physics).
• A passion and talent for Fire Engineering.
• To be confident, outgoing and someone who enjoys being part of a busy team.
• To be an articulate communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills.
• To be a self-starter who is tenacious in concluding tasks.
• To be driven, ambitious and enjoy change and variety.
• To buy into Hydrock’s values and ethos.

We are also keen to know if you can offer any of these attributes:

• Additional languages (other than English) that you are fluent in or able to apply professionally.
• Full UK driving licence.

What we can offer you: 

• Inspiring and supportive colleagues.
• Reward for progression and hard work.
• An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills.
• Competitive starting salary
• Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
• An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!).
• An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday).
• A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme.